Pumpkin Infusions It's time for the dessert of our fall cocktail menu. And what better dessert than pumpkin pie? While we're not above using canned pumpkin puree in our cocktails, for this year's pumpkin pie cocktail, we wanted more of a pure, fresh pumpkin flavor and a...
Apple a Day Old Fashioned Cocktail Recipe This week, we're drinking to the beginning of fall. One of our favorite ways to mark the changing of the seasons is to create a seasonally appropriate old fashioned recipe; it's our version of the pumpkin spice latte. While we...
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Playing with Acid As we mentioned last month, we've recently noticed acid creeping into our cocktail menus. When our first attempt to use it ourselves went terribly wrong, we decided that this trend bears further investigations--and that we'd use more conventional alternatives until such time as...
O'Zapft is Whiskey + White Manhattan Cocktail Recipe Back in some of our earliest posts, we use 'white,' as a nickname designation for dry vermouth. We thought that following the wine convention of red and white would be a useful handle, and we thought we could...
Hopped Whiskey Today, we're going to celebrate the beginning of DC Beer Week by talking about ...
Quick Cocktails for the Busy Person One thing we hear all the time, in a tone of mixed wistfulness and shame, is, 'Oh, cocktails are my favorite, but somehow when it comes down to it, I almost always end up just grabbing a beer or pouring a glass...
Americano Cocktail Recipe As so many things do, our week at the end of August immersed in spritzers (here, here, here, here, & here) made us think of the Negroni. According to legend, the Negroni's parent was a spritzer, the Americano. The Americano is a bit fancier...
Wigle Whiskey Barrelhouse Tour I spent the second happy hour of Pittsburgh's Three Day Blow Festival taking a tour of the Wigle Barrelhouse. Yes, that's different from the distillery where I spent the first happy hour. A little while ago, Wigle outgrew its distillery and had to expand...
The Lost Art of Rye-Making Rye is quickly becoming our preferred whiskey. Like most drinkers of the current era, we started on Bourbon. Actually, one of us, like most men, started with single malt Scotch because it has great marketing, and he's susceptible to peer pressure,...